El Profe
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | HS/College teaching |
| Location | NYC, NY, United States |
| Introduction | I've been teaching languages, specifically, Spanish, French and Latin for 43 years. Last June I retired from teaching at the Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in New York city. I took my M.A. in Linguistics at CUNY. My masters thesis was an analysis of Zulu and a preparation of drills to teach Zulu to English speakers. I have studied the structures of at least 25 languages among which are English, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Ladino, Greek, Yiddish, German, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Mandarin, Zulu and Ancient Egyptian. I taught the first college-level Linguistics course ever taught in the NYC public high schools, and had three sections of 34 students per section for several years running. For me, linguistics is the chemistry of language. It is a science and is capable of as rigorous analysis as any of the physical sciences. |
| Interests | Languages, folk music for singing and guitar, photography |
| Favorite Music | Traditional world-wide folk including Klezmer and songs in judeo-Español and Ladino |
| Favorite Books | Shogun, the Fellowship of the Ring, 1984, Don Quixote, Highest Duty by Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the pilot who successfully landed Flight 1549 in the Hudson River with no lives lost. |
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What is the meaning of meaning?